Aaaaaagh!

So, I've taken to getting up very early in the morning and then getting nothing noteable done for the rest of the day. And while I'm being non-productive, I manage to generate about twelve times the number of ideas I generate when I'm actually accomplishing crap.

The BIG SGA META post is currently at 2196 wds and will probably be around 3000, maybe less, by the time I'm finished. If I ever finish. Gah. I haven't finished the Rodney section, and I can feel imaginary!Rodney staring at me accusitorily right now.



That, and the Harlequin challenge on sga_flashfic. Okay, it started with my vague remembrance of the worst romance novel I ever read (and I read a lot of bad ones), this one in particular involving a woman managing to through some mistake with ancient texts to accidentally summon herself up a personal viking. The fic was published in the early 90's and she had shoulder pads and hmmm. Hmmmm.

Anyway, so then came the Atlantean!John idea. See, someway or somehow John manages to get himself demolecularized and trapped in stasis (not the slowly aging stasis of alternate!reality!Elizabeth, but actual stasis) and the stargate expedition manages one day to discover him purely as a fluke.

Imagine if John were Atlantean! His parents would be career military who died when he was three at the beginning of the wraith wars. He was raised by the system, but still ended up with an excellent education because this is Atlantis' system we're talking about. Just picture him trying to do the Atlantean equivalent of explaining to Telya what a hail mary was. It would be high-larious, I'm telling you. He would know how everything in the city worked, mainly because he spent the majority of his rebellious teen years making it not work in humorous ways.

He was drafted for the wraith wars at some point. Managed to get royally drunk on leave and ooops, got himself trapped in stasis.

Or something. All of this open to change.

And then. Then. I realized that John would have angst. In fact, he would have AAAAANGST. Because he'd fall into stasis and wake up 10,000 yrs later to be like, OMGWTF ALL MY PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND/OR GONE?!?

He wouldn't hit on Chaya, because he thought the whole ascension thing was pretentious bullshit anyway. But they would bond in being the last two real ancients around.

He would be annoyingly brilliant and bug the hell out of Rodney because Atlantean!John would actually have the education to back up his math brilliance, considering the Ancients were probably teaching their kids linear algebra at the age when we're still muddling through high school trigonometry.

And Cadman would play dress up doll with him because she'd just have to get him out of those nasty glimmerly retro clothes and the shoulder pads? Hmmm. Hmmmm.



I need a plot. Haaaaaalp!



In other news, I have about 50 unaswered comments in my inbox, one of which is a beta request, but I think I'm going to avoid them for a few more hours.

Vidding update

Hey! I'm doing something after all!

I'm about, oh, halfway? through clipping for my SGA vid. I told seperis I'd try to get this thing done by the 10th. At least a rough draft, I figure.

I have an outline partially written, mostly in my head, that still needs a bit of tweaking and adding to -- I still don't have a unifying theme for the choruses. By the time I come up with one I might need to clip more.

Aaaaaaargh! HATE CLIPPING.

Uhm, yes. Going to go finish my meta post now.

Arc Elements?

Sci-Fi tv in the past has been know first and foremost for it's plot driven nature. Sci-Fi = adventure. We expect big long fascinating storylines, and the emotional arcs are either intrinsically tied in with the plot arcs (in a good show) or pushed to the wayside so that all attention is focused on the plot arcs (in a mediocre/bad show).

SGA, on the other hand, is not focused on plot. It's focused on character. In it you find emotional arcs that far more closely resemble those in shows like Numb3rs or House. These characters are not the epic sort of figures you find in most sci-fi shows. They're not the heroes from SG-1. They're not the wacky escaped convicts from Farscape and they're certainly not John Crichton. They're not quite average, but as with network tv dramas they're still pretty close to the kind of people you've encountered in everyday life.

Especially if you spend a lot of your everyday life in fandom, because at least half of the main characters are geeks.

The entire premise of the show is that a bunch of overachievers told the government "We want to go on a dangerous, potentially one-way adventure" and the government replied, "Well...we guess we can spare you." As you can imagine, this principal difference in premise makes SGA not your average sci-fi.

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